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Comment Re:Silencing the Woke EU Dictators (Score 1) 90

I'll add that the "leftist" observation that Twitter was a private company and had no obligation to to amplify anyone was in response to Rightists claiming "Section 230 violations" and "First Amendment Violations" that should result in government sanctions. Now the algo is implemented by a self-proclaimed mecha-Hitler that undresses children, and the people who cheer it pretend that nobody is old enough to remember the before times.

Comment Re: If you want to speak freely on the internet... (Score 2, Informative) 49

Many people--including fans of Jimmy Kimmel, or drag performance, or news reports critical of the president or the late St. Charlie, or non-violent protesters--would consider government seizure of the means of speech to be the greatest threat to free speech. But it's true that you can now insult out-groups and tout ivermectin on Twitter now, so I guess the First Amendment is doing better than ever!

Comment Re: Dumbing down (Score 3, Funny) 118

The LA public television station also balked at the price of PBS affiliation a few years ago. So it could be that they will opt to produce their own programming, or buy shows directly from the producers/distributers and continue to broadcast educational programming. But it's Arkansas, so maybe it will be The Walmart Product Information Hour--brought to you by The Noah's Ark Experience.

Comment Re:Canada is Free? (Score 1, Insightful) 12

The subtext of the right-handed circle jerk above you is because years ago the Canadian government didn't let truckers obstruct the streets for months on end and because a licensing board thought Jordan Peterson was preaching out of his depth. Meanwhile, for the US these people cheer people being jailed for weeks for insulting the regime, journalists being deported for covering protests of the regime, the President and his appointed head of the FCC placing their own restrictions on the news, and and the government "restricting the right to protest" with unreasonable and unaccountable force.

They nurse the grievance of lost privilege and exposed mediocrity by becoming "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic — Islamophobic — you name it". I suppose we can add Canuk-Francophobic to the list. It seeps out of their pores, and they like it when thinking people wrinkle theirs nose at the foulness because it reassures them they they are still the person they are afraid of growing out of.

Many of them realize that the malevolence and incompetence is crashing the economy, but when they look at the cabal of kiddy diddlers and enablers in this administration, they think "at least they are like me," and they're fulfilled.

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